Jeff Newberry is the author of Brackish (Aldrich Press) and A Visible Sign (Finishing Line 2008). With Brent House, he is the co-editor of The Gulf Stream: Poems of the Gulf Coast (Snake Nation Press, forthcoming). His writing has appeared in a variety of print and online journals, including Apalachee Review,Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature, Sweet: A Literary Confection, and StorySouth, as well as in the online anthology Best of the Net 2008. Forthcoming writing will appear in Crab Orchard Review and Redactions. His writing has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is the president of the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers. He earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia in 2010.